9th Circ. Nixes CAFA Sanction For DLA, Bradley Arant

Law360, New York (July 7, 2010, 2:54 PM EDT) -- A federal appeals court panel has overturned sanctions that would have forced DLA Piper, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP and four individual attorneys to file a copy of the sanctions order each time they or their client — mobile-data service provider Motricity Inc. — removed an action to state court under the Class Action Fairness Act.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit struck down the sanction Friday. Defendants did not challenge the portion of the sanctions that ordered them to pay over $15,000...